Consciousness
A drug that decreases activity in the CNS.
What is a depressant?
Storage that holds information for hours, days, weeks, or years; no known capacity.
What is Long-term memory
Process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored.
What is Retrieval?
Condition in which learning takes place by watching the actions of others.
What is Observational Learning?
Capacity to distinguish between similar but distinct stimuli; only the exact stimuli causes a CR
What is Discrimination?
Neurological disorder characterized by excessive sleepiness in which a person may fall asleep while performing normal daily functions.
What is narcolepsy?
Process by which memories become stable in the brain.
What is Consolidation?
§Inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
Gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when the US is no longer presented.
What is Extinction?
Any stimulus or event that functions to increase the likelihood of the behavior that led to it.
What is Reinforcer?
Desire to return to a drug, usually to cope with emotions and daily stress, when physical symptoms are gone.
What is psychological dependence?
Critical part of the limbic system that acts as a gateway for storage of long-term memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
Act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences; memories that can be retrieved to answer specific questions.
What is explicit/declarative memory?
A general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in a gradual reduction in responding.
What is Habituation?
Type of learning in which the consequences of an organism’s behavior determine whether the behavior will be repeated in the future
What is Operant conditioning?
Naturally occuring 24-hour cycle that tells the body when to sleep, wake, eat, etc.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
Inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
External information associated with stored information that helps bring that information to mind.
What is Retrieval Cues?
Condition in which something is learned but it is not manifested as a behavioral change until sometime in the future.
What is Latent Learning?
Learning that results from the reinforcement of successive steps to a final desired behavior.
What is Shaping?
Altered state of consciousness characterized by suggestibility and the feeling that one’s actions are occurring involuntarily.
What is hypnosis?
Influence of past experiences on later behavior, even without an effort to remember them or an awareness of the recollection; emotional or procedural memory.
What is Implicit Memory?
Process whereby communication across the synapse between neurons strengthens the connection, making further communication easier; causes physical changes in the brain.
Circumstances when external rewards can undermine the intrinsic satisfaction of performing a behavior.
What is Overjustification Effect?
Mental representation of the physical features of the environment.
What is Cognitive Map?